Bill Buxton Quotes
If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
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When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.
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It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
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Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
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Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art.
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For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
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If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
